Synopsis

Pianist Traude Krüger has been giving piano lessons in a women’s prison for more than 60 years. One day she meets Jenny there, an unapproachable, erratic, violent young woman who is imprisoned for murder. Traude at first refuses to take on the fiercely rebellious girl as pupil – until she hears her play. As a child Jenny was a musical prodigy and now could easily take part in piano competition outside of the prison if she could only pull herself together. A battle of wills develops between the self-destructive inmate and her strict, conservative teacher – a duel of life and love that rubs salt in the hidden wounds of the two women.